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CPJ joined 26
other human rights and civil society groups on Wednesday in an open letter calling on the member states of the U.N. Human
Rights Council to renew the mandate of Ahmed Shaheed, the special rapporteur on
the situation of human rights in Iran. The public letter also urged the members
to participate in the March 17 Interactive Dialogue with the special rapporteur
and to express concern over the severe violations of human rights, including
anti-press abuses, in Iran.

New York, May 21, 2013--Internet access has slowed, critical
websites have been blocked, and several journalists have been summoned back to
prison in Iran as the country's Guardian Council made a key decision today
barring two leading candidates from the presidential election. The Committee to
Protect Journalists condemns the broad efforts to deny Iranian citizens information
in the run-up to the June vote.

New
York, March 29, 2012--Iranian authorities have imprisoned two additional
journalists as part of their three-year-long crackdown on the press, according
to news reports. In addition, the BBC reported that its Web services had been
targeted by a distributed denial-of-service attack, which the broadcaster
believed originated from the Iranian regime.

New York, July
8, 2011--The Committee to Protect Journalists is
disturbed by the Iranian government's persistent mistreatment of detained
journalists as well as news reports that authorities have arrested two
additional journalists in recent days.

"We are profoundly disturbed by media reports and testimonies indicating that Iran's prison and judicial authorities continue to engage in abusive and retaliatory tactics against detained journalists," said CPJ Middle East and North Africa Program Coordinator Mohamed Abdel Dayem. "Making matters worse, the authorities continue to detain new journalists at an alarmingly steady pace."

The world’s worst online oppressors are using an array of tactics, some reflecting astonishing levels of sophistication, others reminiscent of old-school techniques. From China’s high-level malware attacks to Syria’s brute-force imprisonments, this may be only the dawn of online oppression. A CPJ special report by Danny O’Brien